Lego WANT of the Day

• Its addictive.

1. Ues Brick Owl and Bricklink. I prefer Brick Owl, Bricklink is bigger but i dont like the website. Also Lego now sell and extensive range of pieces on line, its a bit random but sometimes they are significantly cheaper than the reseller market, sometimes more expensive. For extra geekiness you can also log you collection piece by piece on Brick Owl and it will give you a daily esitmate of its worth on the second hand market, bit like watching the stock market.
2. Depends where youve bought it from, how much you paid and whats missing. If its a few common pieces and bought from Ebay suck it up. If its a lot or rare pieces bad feedback and demand a refund etc.
3. When i buy bulk I do a three stage sort, stage one is into categories, stage 2 is a further sorting of the categories, stage 3 down to colour and specific piece type (bearing in mind there can be 3 or more variations of some elements, the variations may be cosmetic or may have a functiknal impact on the piece. Sort by element type not colour, its easier to spot the colour you want amonhst elements of the same type than spot the element you want amongst a mass of the same colour.
4. Organiser draws or cases, i like the cases with the removeable boxes, allows you to tip them out to find a part or colour, organisers with partitions are a pain.

Any recommendations for decent cheaper  baseplates? Bought some from Smyth’s but the fit isn’t great. Fine for mini figures and smaller bases but by the time I’m trying to anchor bigger buildings the fit error has multiplied to an extent they don’t fit well. Seen some giant ones on Temu but not sure if they are decent.

Also seen some peel and stick style on Amazon. Could be an option to stick down to mdf board?

Have had fun building the Kingfisher and daffodils with my 6yo niece. I’ve got the moon phase model thingy waiting to be built too 

Not sure what happened to my text.  Anyway - PiXEL-DAN’s T6 Jedi Shuttle MOC - 5184 parts and just awesome.

It’s a little precarious on its stand, but the build is truly excellent! Very details, very big and very heavy.

Picked up R2-D2 looks fun 🙌🏻

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/r2-d2-75379?ef_id=CjwKCAjwnv-vBhBdEiwABCYQA5l8kzDsoXL7ivYbr25xclOotY6MJ3vlajsCoKDVr9Gn57ng__5R4BoCm7oQAvD_BwE%3AG%3As&s_kwcid=AL%21933%213%21%21%21%21x%21%21%2119820378845%21&cmp=KAC-INI-GOOGEU-GO-GB_GL-EN-RE-SP-BUY-CREATE-MB_ALWAYS_ON-SHOP-BP-PMAX-ALL-CIDNA00000-PMAX-HIGH_PRIORITY&gad_source=1

£70 at Costco

That's a heck of a thing.

That jedi shuttle is impressive!

Selling my Liebherr R 9800 (42100) for £250 plus P&P (or can drop off local to West Cheshire). Bought it from neilforrow of this parish back on page 27 of this thread and it's been sitting on the study floor since then. Mrs S has said time to move it on. Message me if interested.

@daffy good isn't it. Stand is a bit pants. Where did you get the dark red half cone from? They are like rocking horse poo since pixel Dan published his instructions.

This was my latest build.

About the same size as the Jedi shuttle.

Collecting parts for this next.

Over 2ft long, 6687 pieces.

9% cashback at Quidco at the mo on big kits from the Lego store...

The Haul Craft looks really good.  Andor was possibly my favourite of the TV shows.  It really highlighted the malice and suppression of the Empire.

Oh my, that is a thing of beauty! I wish I had the talent to bodge a Vulcan together on the same lines.

MOC of the day:

Picked up a Lego technic Lamborghini hurican 42161 in Tesco for a quite reasonable £28 while letting the wee one choose anthother little set. Reduced from £47 with Clubcard.
First Lego I’ve bought for myself since childhood despite having an extensive collection of blocks - quite shocked by the instruction manual - almost 200 pages!! Jeepers
https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/lamborghini-huracan-tecnica-42161

My son has just had a 5th birthday party so I’m, sorry, we’re building a lot of Lego at the moment.  The manuals seem to have 50 pages of a single block per stage then the last page adds a gazillion blocks. No rhyme or reason to any of it.

Quick bit of advice please… my old man has asked me to sell his Death Star (10188).

it’s sat in his wardrobe since its release, unopened.

any idea on its value? I see some on eBay, but the prices range wildly. Or is my best bet to just stick it on a 99p auction and see what happens?

I don’t think he has any expectations on what it might yield.

any advice is appreciated 👍

Around £600 according to Brickowl.

@v7fmp not sure if you’ve been on this thread much but stumpyjon is ‘qualified’ 😉

Finished my Concorde last night, bloody hell it's massive! One of those builds that starts small, grows gradually and the in the last few stages it doubles in length.

Have also built the Classic Defender kit too, can't post any photos of them though as I don't have the buttons above the typing box and Postimages doesn't want to play nicely for some reason.

Got to decide on the next kit to do now, might be the Delorean but fancy something other than another car.

There's a preview of a new Artemis SLS Heavy lift (Lego 10341) set that's doing the rounds on various websites & SM. Looks a big build and contains the launch tower that many folk have been asking for to go with the Saturn V. Not sure if the two are compatible scale wise. Another big display piece for those of a Lego space persuasion.

I saw the SLS on a website if correct its 3601 pieces.

I've had a great deal of fun with this Atreides Royal Ornithopter build. I reckon that around 80% of it was the internal mechanisms that control the extending landing gear / loading bay. The mechanism to retract and deploy the wings and finally the flappy wings lever that makes them go just like in the movie...although maybe not quite so fast. I haven't achieved any lift.....yet

All I have to do now is pluck up the courage to start partially disassembling it so I can fit the lighting set!

I’ve had a great deal of fun with this Atreides Royal Ornithopter build.

This is great news, it's next on my list after I finally get round to finishing the Galaxy Explorer which has been about 1/3 constructed for about a month now. I'm just hanging on for a good GWP or double insiders points or something before ordering it.

Atreides Royal Ornithopter build.

I've got mine waiting at home, but am holding off until I have all the bits to replace the red and blue bits which're visible from the outside.  Might also do some smoothing...

Ordered this fella today:

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for anyone interested, my Death Star sold on ebay for £501.

Trying to resist the UCS AT-AT that's reduced at the moment. Birthday next month but even if I could justify that amount on a Lego set, I've no idea where I'd put it.

The AT-AT is more placeable than many of the other models.  It's quite shelfable or can even stand on the floor.

Ooo, that AT-AT is quite spendy. Think the SLS is looking likely for next big kit for me.

There’s a preview of a new Artemis SLS Heavy lift (Lego 10341) set that’s doing the rounds on various websites & SM. Looks a big build and contains the launch tower that many folk have been asking for to go with the Saturn V. Not sure if the two are compatible scale wise.

for anyone interested, my Death Star sold on ebay for £501.

I bought the UCS Venator, 20% off in a few places including Argos which is a decent reduction on a £550 kit. That's half built on the coffee table, there's a 2 ft long hammerhead corvette half built in the garage and the structure of a UCS scale tie bomber on the go which I'm building from scratch, forgotten how much I like building from scratch and how long it takes.

This is still my favourite own creation, trouble is it was 5ft long and I couldn't lift it so eventually it had to be taken apart.

I picked up a Titanic off eBay last week. Seller didn't want to dissemble it, so it went cheap.

Then I had a long *fascinating* Teams meeting/briefing the other day and we were told cameras off to save bandwidth... So I pulled apart 2/3 of it in 5 hours. About 6,500 pieces I reckon. Took my fingers a good couple of days to recover! 😁

That TIE Interceptor is a thing of beauty.  It was always my favourite of the Imperial fleet.

im waiting on a couple of deliveries, midi scale falcone and corvette, might prioritise these as my build queue attracting comments from the rest of the family

Extremely tempted for the Artemis rocket

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/nasa-artemis-space-launch-system-10341

That TIE Interceptor is a thing of beauty.  It was always my favourite of the Imperial fleet.

Totally agreed. I'd love to get it, but as ever space is an issue, plus I got the Interceptor from the smaller Tie Interceptor vs Fang Fighter set last year which is much more in scale with my non-UCS Tie Fighter, Tie Bomber, and X-Wing.

I’d love to get it, but as ever space is an issue

It's a bloody spaceship.

midi scale falcone

They're doing Batman villains now?

That reminds me, I picked up the Batman Tumbler last week.  Hopefully all the black parts don't strain my eyes too much!

I wonder if the Artemis can be repurposed as a tank and srb set for the shuttle. Not sure it looks large enough.

This looks fun:

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If anyone is around Paredes de Coura (North Portugal) next month there is a fan weekend.

Oooh, choices, choices.

Saw the Orient Express last time I was in the LEGO shop, anyone built it?
Still lust after an AT-AT and this bundle would get me a chunk of the way there.

like the look of that thanks @Kuco

Extremely tempted for the Artemis rocket

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/nasa-artemis-space-launch-system-10341/blockquote >

 

@clubby

Am about 2/3rds through the orient express. I (whole family really) am really enjoying it. Really nice build.